Tag: health

Thursday Reading List (11/03/2011)

Welcome to a weekly digest of web links I think are worth checking out. These items include articles, images, and video. Please comment on what you find interesting. If you have something to share, please submit links of interest to mike@kineticshift.com.

 

The Stages of Change

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From Experience Life Magazine

Break a habit. Achieve a goal. Transform your life.

At one time or another, most of us have embarked on an effort to change some part of ourselves or our lives. We’ve decided to stop smoking, to start saving, to drop a few pounds, or to get a new job. As a rule, these sorts of changes don’t occur overnight. They take time and effort.And they tend to evolve through a multistage process — one that many behavior-change experts know as the Transtheoretical Model of Change.

Experience Life: Stages of Change Continue reading Thursday Reading List (11/03/2011)

Staying Healthy When Flying

This piece from MIT is a couple months old, dealing with ways to stay healthy while flying during the holiday travel season. But if you’re like the crew here at KS, you may be one of the many who travel regularly, so the advice given by Howard M. Teller, M.D., of MIT Medical will come in handy.

Besides debunking some myths (recirculated cabin air is not the cause of why people get sick when flying), Heller offers some common sense advice on what you can do. Essentially, the main cause of illness when flying are from the people around you, from fellow passengers to the flight crew. Heller also says eating is one of the ways of getting sick, because you’re bringing your hand to your mouth; your hand may have been contaminated.

For more on the subject, check out MIT’s page, which includes a video. We at KS will also offer our own tips on flying healthy in an upcoming post.

MIT Medical